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  • current and future projects
  • history of system announcements
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  • Policies & Procedures
  • UC/UCLA
  • UC electronic communications policy
  • UCLA e-mail policy
  • Physics & Astronomy acceptable use policies
  • Astronomy
  • computer accounts (how to get one and keep it)
  • how to connect your computer to our network
  • inventory tracking procedures
  • guidelines for software installation (requests)

  • Resources
  • general
  • other computing resources on campus [OIT site]
  • brief description of the computing facility
  • public and private mailing lists
  • web proxy (and others)
  • remote access options (including how to check mail or choose an ISP)
  • hardware
  • printers (including copier)
  • projector (Toshiba TLP670U): contact Laurie Liles ...
  • Sun
  • software
  • IR lab (/kroot): contact Matthew Barczys or Jason Weiss ...
  • MacOS:
  • Setup Notes for new "OS X" laptops or upgrades to Tiger (under construction).
  • SSHFS setup for mounting remote filesystems on the Mac OS X.
  • Useful external links: Mac Singularity Wiki and Urania
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  • SunOS
  • Windows

  • User Support
  • answers to frequently asked questions (FAQ)
  • special instructions for using AIPS, anonymous FTP, IDL, IRAF, and StarOffice
  • introduction to the ``new'' SunOS environment
  • explanation of home directory quotas
  • software tutorials written by users for users
  • instructions for remote observing room

    • CONTACT INFORMATION

    This document was last modified on: Friday, 16-May-2008 10:23:31 PDT.
    It can be found at: http://www.astro.ucla.edu/computing/index.shtml.
    Please send all comments and questions to: help+web@astro.UCLA.EDU.